Blackhat is my second favorite movie of the year so far after Mad Max Fury Road. If you were turned off by the baffling negative buzz or sad box office performance, don't be afraid to check it out. The shootout midway through is Mann's best action scene since Heat.

Well, it's not good...and it's boring. The romance is ridiculous and comes out of nowhere. They reveal the bad guy as...some dude! I could forgive all the stupid things if it wasn't sooo boring. Did I mention it's boring?

I know its not original but seeing as I just bought the 15 disc Bluray Halloween set I want to watch them all. So im going for all franchise stuff myself. Halloween then Friday the 13th then I'm thinking Tales from the crypt and the Vaults of horror stuff. More than enough to keep me going. Next year I want to do universal monsters and old horror movies.

who knows? I get myself down with reading stuff like that, it happened to me over the Friday the 13th boxset recently where I talked myself out of it because of negativity over certain movie versions, so with Halloween the 15 disc set certainly is the most comprehensive so I just got it, its not arrived yet so I cant comment, I do own all the Friday the 13th in mixed versions though not all on bluray, with the more modern deluxe remastered editions and blurays for the first 3,

The same is happening again with Scream factory at the moment with a new 3 disc Army of darkness coming out soon but we don't know what versions are onnit, I want the 96 min directors cut which is not yet on bluray, just on dvd, but im not sure if the elements are available?

Its frustrating some times being a collector and knowing what versions you want, I am still angry over Kill bill 1 and 2, I own the first versions on dvds, then I bought the uncut Japanese dvd with a few extra scenes and in full colour, then I bought the steelbook 2 disc bluray with both films onnit but part 1 is the American cut, a few minutes shorter and in Black and White, so I still don't own a perfect version of Kill bill, which frustrates me, which version do I watch? and there,s also the Whole bloody affair too,

I wish the Whole Bloody Affair would just come out already. I had the opportunity to ask QT about the Whole Bloody Affair. In front of a live studio audience, no less. We talked about what it was, but he never divulged when it would definitely get a release, and then the whole conversation was cut when our bit was televised.

Since I watched Ex Machina last week, I've been kinda hooked on Oscar Issac. I went and picked up A Most Violent Year. I really enjoyed it, no matter what was going on around him Issac's character would not break from his beliefs. It was really refreshing to see a character like that, someone who could remain badass without resorting to gratuitous levels of violence. Oh and is there anyone sexier than Jessica Chastain, my god she's gorgeous and is a scene stealer in this one.

Agree on Isaac (he's making a run for being the new Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a reliable actor in indie and mainstream movies), but Chastain just leaves me cold. She was great in "A Most Violent Year," though I never for a moment thought that I was watching the character she was playing as much as a good actress trying hard to project a different personality. Great flick.

Here’s something interesting. This week, the fan film STAR TREK: RENEGADES debuted online. Except that this is no ordinary fan film. It’s directed by Tim Russ, who also appears onscreen as his Voyager character, Tuvok. Other returning Star Trek mainstays are Walter Koenig, Robert Picardo, and the kid who plays Icheb. The rest of the cast members include bona fides like Sean Young, Edward Furlong, Corin “Parker Lewis” Nemec, and a ton of other I-know-that-actor-from-somewhere faces.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still a fan film, so it’s very, VERY rough around the edges. I nonetheless enjoyed it. It’s damn impressive how much they’ve accomplished with so very little. (The budget was allegedly only $350,000!) It looks just as good as a season one TNG episode, if not better.

The fan film subculture has always been fascinating to me, and hopefully this movie will be a bold (sorry) step forward, where fan films can blur the line and perhaps even coexist with the real thing.

I just watched The Honeymoon Killers from 1969 and was blown away by how chilling this movie was for the time it was made. It's the true story of a lonely overweight woman who falls in love with a con man who seduces women over a dating service and steals their money. She starts to help him and their actions turn homicidal over jealousy and self preservation. Incredible performances, especially from the female lead, great script and very well directed. A few scenes genuinely disturbed me. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend checking it out. I think it's on Hulu plus under the criterion collection. Well worth your time.

I agree, but within it's apparent dullness I found a lot to like in this one. I like the awkward chemistry between Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgård (whose 'stache is like a character of its own), two immature souls who happened to cross paths in a decade and place where they could pursue their initial attraction. And though she isn't as good as in last year's "The Skeleton Twins" Kristen Wiig keeps getting this awkward roles that seem quasi-comedic but have a lot of dramatic pathos bubbling just underneath the surface. And remember that only eight years ago it took David Fincher untold millions to recreate 1970's San Francisco, which this indie flick can now recreate on the cheap thanks to falling prices for digital cameras and effects packages.

"DOATG" doesn't warrant going out of your way to see it, but it's definitely worth a look (and a matinee ticket) if you do.

So did anyone else see HITMAN this weekend? Because boy, I have not been more frustrated leaving a movie theater in a long time. I only paid like 6.50 for the ticket or something, and still, I wonder if that was too much.

I keep waiting for Hollywood to figure out that the main character can't be an emotionless robot. It's just the worst action movie trope of all time, and it's basically never good. I imagine film makers only keep doing it because it's easy.

I just finished Dressed to kill, a lovely Arrowvideo bluray, I really like De Palma, he really goes for it with filming style, camera angle choices and strange uses of music at times where you would expect a lower key choice, not seen it in years and I really like it still

Dressed to kill is just wonderful and works still great today. Aside from some corny dialogue and watching Keith Gordon working on his ridiculously laughable computer Peter the great, this is my favorite De Palma film.To me the museum sequence is the most elegantly suspenseful "chase" sequence ever shot.Back in the 80s my diabolical VCR ate most of my VHS copy. The only thing I could rescue was the nightmare sequence in the asylum and in the shower. Until I got a new tape I must have watched that sequence hundreds of times.Love that movie.

Ah man, just when Shocker was getting its due. Just read an okay book called "Shock Value" - a sort of "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" for 70s horror - Wes of course featured prominently - he had a strange and interesting and wonderful life and accomplished some truly great things.

So very sad! Wes was always one of the best interviews you could see, the guy's done literally everything in the business, and he had a million stories. Even though his body of work is very hit or miss, Scream was really big for me as a kid and one of the reasons I really started to like horror. He will be missed.

Dammit. I was waiting for him to make another movie, we are due for him to break the rules and change the course of horror movies again, What a Amazing legacy he has left behind, Patricks column on Wes is a great start for 10 movies to watch on scary movie month